"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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Did anyone see the Beeb program on the gulf stream last Thursday?
We could easily be growing reindeer moss within a few years.

Please note that it was NOT scare-mongering - one likely result
of global warming is that the gulf stream will stop or (worse)
turn south earlier, and the south of England will revert to
tundra. Pity about those of you further north, of course. What
nobody knows is the timing and exact probabilities, but it is
certain that the change could take place within a few years when
and if it happens.

I saw it. It is difficult to flaw the meteorological and oceanographic
arguments. I think it painted a very realistic scenario.
About the only good which might come of it would be that the Scottish ski
resorts might become viable again. That is, if anybody would wish to go
skiing in the absence of sun.

Who knows, we might even get some skiing in the Dales.

Franz